7 | Sweeties

"Who's she". "My daughter". "Oh". "She minds her own thing, don't worry about her" Charlotte (age 22) grabs Sebastian (age 26) by the arm and leads him into the tent. Ava (the daughter, age 7) stands outside. Staring at the tent while Charlotte zips it closed. Charlotte and Sebastian start making out inside. Ava looks towards the giant stadium built on the horizon. The music festival is surrounded by thousands of tents, like a patched together blanket. Ava walks through the tents when a random drunk shouts: "Hey! Hey! Guys! Check it out. Someone lost their property hahaha!". "Shut up James! It's a fucking kid." Ella says as she jumps up to get to the child: "Hey. Are you okay? Where's your mommy?". Ava just stares at Ella. "Haha, she hates your face as well!" James says right before a bottle of booze flies past his face. Ava walks on. On her way to the stadium, she sees a guy in a Spiderman suit fucking a girl in puppy outfit, behind a pointless bush. As Ava walks further, a woman, Rylee, suddenly grabs Ava from behind and spins her around. Rylee: "Darthy!?". Rylee is in a state of panic, as well as clearly high on something. Rylee had mistaken Ava for Darthy. Rylee runs on, screaming for Darthy through the streets of tents. Ava continues her journey to the stage. She walks past a few bodies, lying face down in the trampled mud, breathing heavily in their own vomit. Ava enters the stage area. She walks through a forest of legs, trying to get to the big main stage. A dreadlocked character, high on something approaches her: "Yo kid! Want some crystal?". He places a small ziplock bag of ecstasy in Ava's hand. "What the fuck Cal, you can't give a kid E". "Ey! I got some every birthday. An' I'm still living strong right!?". The two crazy characters get lost in the forest of legs. Ava keeps making her way to the front stage. The closer she gets to the front, the more dangerous and berserk the legs become, turning into a battle ground for a little child. She finally reaches the front and looks up. "Poo Bear!". The stage is built like an enormous Winnie-The-Pooh character. Suddenly an extremely loud thumping begins and Winnie-The-Pooh starts blowing out gigantic clouds of flames. The entire cloud erupts in a frenzy, jumping up and down like a synchronized wave. Ava freaks out and puts her hands to hear ears. In doing so, she notices the ziplock ecstasy bag in her hand. She slowly lowers her hand to inspect the pills. They are many different neon colours, with cute drawings on them of cartoon characters. Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck etc. Ava opens the ziplock bag, picking out her favourite character: Barney. Just as she is about to put the pill on her tongue, she notices the small boy standing in front of her. Darthy (age 7) smiles at her. The two just stare at each other in the dancing ground of towering legs. She lowers the pill away from her mouth. Darthy gets bumped over by a leg. Ava quickly runs forward and picks Darthy up as good as a 7 year old can pick someone up. Darthy looks at his hero as he offers her his teddy toy. The smile on her face proves the thanks as she accepts the gift. Darthy looks at the ziplock bag in Ava's hand. Ava gladly offers Darthy a sweetie.